outputs are defined and problems related to aggregation of outputs. Limitations on the ability to interpret results reported …

This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier …

, remittances, tax deduction, administrative aspects of frontier crossing, health insurance, unemployment benefit, irregular …

In this paper we consider parametric deterministic frontier models. For example, the production frontier may be linear … show that exact (finite sample) inference is possible when the frontier and the distribution of the one-sided error are …

efficient domestic firms are also contributing to the gap. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up … than firms farther from the frontier, although foreign firms do exhibit this behavior. The distance of Russian firms to the … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of Czech firms. Nevertheless, after nearly a decade of reforms, neither model of …